18 May 16 • 2019
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Revisionist History
(JTA)
F
reshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib,
D-Mich., said in an interview
that she “loves the fact” that her
“Palestinian ancestors”
were part an attempt
“to create a safe haven
for Jews” after the
Holocaust.
She made the com-
ments in an interview
on Saturday on the
Skullduggery podcast titled “From
Rashida With Love.
”
“There’
s always kind of a calming
feeling when I think of the tragedy of
the Holocaust, that it was my ances-
tors — Palestinians — who lost their
land and some lost their lives, their
livelihood, their human dignity, their
existence, in many ways, has been
wiped out … in the name of trying to
create a safe haven for Jews, post-Ho-
locaust, post-tragedy and the horrific
persecution of Jews across the world
at that time. And I love the fact that it
was my ancestors that provided that
in many ways,
” Tlaib said.
Her characterization of what
occurred in pre-state Palestine
appears to be inconsistent with his-
torical fact, however.
Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, the
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, opposed
all immigration of Jews into Palestine
and, during the war, he campaigned
against the transfer of Jewish refugees
to Palestine. He reportedly worked
with the Nazis to prevent the estab-
lishment of a Jewish homeland.
In addition, the Palestinian Arab
residents revolted against the British
which led to restrictions on Jewish
immigration to British Mandate
Palestine, depriving Jews of a “safe
haven.
”
Tlaib also condemned Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not
seeing her grandmother who lives in
the West Bank as an equal.
“We can smell it from far away
that, no, you don’
t want to look at my
grandmother in the eye, Netanyahu,
and say ‘
You are equal to me. You are
as human as I am to you,
’
” she said.
At least two of Tlaib’
s Republican
colleagues took her remarks out of
context, saying she had said that the
Holocaust — and not the refuge that
Jews found in Palestine — gave her
a “calming feeling.
” “Rashida Tlaib
says thinking of the Holocaust pro-
vides her a ‘
calming feeling’
,
” Rep. Liz
Cheney, R-Wyo., the third-ranking
Republican in the Senate said on
Twitter. “@RashidaTlaib says the
Holocaust gives her ‘
a calming feel-
ing’
,
” Rep. Lee Zeldin, D-N.Y., said on
the same platform.
Tlaib in a statement slammed
Cheney “for using the tragedy of the
Holocaust in a transparent attempt
to score political points.
” Tlaib in her
statement said she “did not in any way
praise the Holocaust, nor did she say
the Holocaust itself brought a calming
feeling to her.
”
Last week Tlaib, the first
Palestinian-American to be elected to
Congress, announced the dates for her
congressional visit to the West Bank,
which she organized to compete with
Israel trips organized by the American
Israel Education Foundation, an
affiliate of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee. ■
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